When we got together to talk about Betty White roles and the performances that made us love her, we realized that diving deep into the world of "The Golden Girls" was a necessity. On this special episode, J, Cortney, and Mia welcome friends (and Golden Girls experts) Corbin Eaton and Amanda Strawn to discuss what made us all want to move to Florida…

The 2022 Academy Award nominees for 2022 have been announced and while we wait for the end of March to see who wins, we wanted to dedicate a handful of episodes to people we love who are getting honored this year at the Oscars! The first episode in our "2022 High Five Oscar Series" will be centered on a director after our own hearts: Edgar Wright! …

This is the true story of three not-strangers, picked to record a podcast together and have their conversation taped, to find out what happens when people stop ranking politely…and start getting real…The Real High Five: The Podcast. That's the totally real intro for the reality show starring Cortney, Mia, J, and our very special guest, Dana Daniele…

When Betty White passed away at the end of 2021, the world lost a comedic giant. We decided to mourn and remember the way we know best, so Cortney, Mia, and J got together to record a very special episode completely dedicated to Betty White. It wouldn't be a High Five episode without ending with the definitely Top 5 Betty White Roles of all time li…

Most people just want to forget that 2021 ever happened and just move on, but we at High Five: The Podcast saw some pretty darn good movies over the past calendar year, and Mia, J, and Cortney want to tell you all about it! Since we are narrowing down our Top 10 Favorite Movies of 2021, we couldn't just keep the discussion to 5 movies, so this is a…

This is our holiday special. But we end talking movies like usual. But it's fun. How are you?Awkward High Five Podcast által

The holidays are a time of giving, which is why we are giving you our most fantasy-inducing, Christmas-tactular, alternate-dimension holiday rompings ever! J, Mia, and Cortney love to love holiday movies, but that doesn't mean that every great Christmas (or other holidays) movie has been made yet. On this Holiday handbag, the gang sits down to deci…

The holidays are a time for family and whether you like or loathe being around your family, movies offer us a glimpse into all different types of parental figures. On this High Five Family Reunion, Cortney, Mia, and J talk what makes the best kind of movie parents, whether superpowers are required, and which families we would want to infiltrate. It…

We've waited for what feels like 10,000 years for Denis Villeneuve's adaptation of Dune to hit the screens. In 2021 it finally happened and the High Five Gang is dusting off their Gom Jabbars and flying all their dragonfly ships to Arrakis to have an in-depth discussion about everything Atreides, Harkonnen, and naked Oscar Isaac! On this interstell…

Oh Frances, our Frances! Why has it taken so long for us to record an episode about the Top 5 Best Frances McDormand Roles, you may be wondering? Well, every time we almost started a list, she came out with another movie that was freaking amazing! We just gave up. She will always be creating wondrous new art, and with her adaptation of The Tragedy …

This has been a year of introspection and the High Five Hosts are celebrating by diving into their inner film psyche and putting on our Armchair Therapist hats this week. Do you want to know which movies made the biggest impact on your favorite hosts? What about learning how animatronic dinosaurs altered lives. You'll find out all that and more on …

It's that time of year where Daily puts s--t on his face to go get food. We discuss Squid Game, Dune, Dev not hating on Marvel fans anymore, Alec Baldwin's blank mishaps, cancel culture, and a Florida man's tasty weapon of choice.Awkward High Five Podcast által

It's no secret that we love Brendan Fraser on High Five: The Podcast. What may seem like a secret is why we've never done an episode on the marvel of a man...until now! That's right, Mia, J, and Cortney are getting frilly for Fraser, batshit for Brendan, you get the idea. While it is difficult to not just love all his work, the gang actually decide…

It's time to get quirky and gather the whole family when the gang decides to talk Wes Anderson movies! We're celebrating the upcoming release of The French Dispatch by taking a deep dive into Cortney's favorite director, with Mia and J joining her in a discussion of the Top 5 Wes Anderson movies of all time! At least until we see his next one, that…

Ever wanted to hear what Daily's internal chatter sounds like? Inquire within. We discuss the great Norm Macdonald, the anniversary of some groundbreaking albums, Punky Brewster's death spree, dildos vs vibrators, the Brian Laundrie hunt, and yet another crazy naked woman.Awkward High Five Podcast által

In a world where most musicians think they can act and ALL actors think they can be in a band (looking at you Thirty Odd Foot of Grunts!), J, Cortney, and Mia decided it was time to decide once and for all who did it the best! On the heels of the VMAs and before the upcoming Grammys, we're finally getting to the best of the double-threats by rankin…

Hey how has everyone's last year or so been? Anything interesting happen? We discuss candy corn haters, Daily doubles, buying drugs in Mexico, celebrity deaths, pronouns, and a naked golf cart rider.Awkward High Five Podcast által

We're dying to review and talk about The Suicide Squad with you. Trust us, we've been just as excited to see James Gunn's newest demented action story as much as the rest of you, so much so that J, Mia, and Cortney scoured the globe and brought Q back from exile to talk about it with us! Fresh from the beaches of Corto Maltese, Q joins the gang for…

FANS: Lrrr kicks off the show! We've got filmmaker Chris Canote (Stigma: Raised in Hollywood) and Maloney's Irish Pub owner Wendy Bettin on to talk about the first time they met Corey Feldman, his rock n' roll attitude and Corey's role in Chris' upcoming documentary on child stars.FILMS: Is The Goonies (1985) good enough for our panel of reviewers?…

Have you heard the one about the podcast episode with three hilarious hosts talking about the Top 5 Comedy Specials of All Time? You haven't!? It's like the best joke in the whole world! Spend some time with Mia, J, and Cortney as they talk about the comedians and jokes that spoke to them and which ones deserve the honor of Top 5 Comedy Specials in…

FANS: Entertainer Matt Geiler (America's Got Talent, Frederick Julius) tells us about he how created the Dancing Pumpkin Man character that went viral & landed him on AGT and discusses the latest project from his throwback pop band Frederick Julius. FILMS: Two of our panelists have seen Big Trouble in Little China over 200 times. There is much prai…

We're kicking off Season 6 with a BANG, and there's no bigger bang in Hollywood than Nicolas Cage! From the heights of Raising Arizona to the lows of 211 to the sheer insanity of buying an Egyptian Tomb for himself, Cortney, Mia, and J talk everything Cage and why they love him so much! You may be surprised which ones we are most nostalgic for and …

FANS: Corin Nemec (Stargate SG:1, Stephen King's The Stand, Parker Lewis Can't Lose) chats with us about Ted & Bud Bundy, fandom & upcoming projects, including Rottentail, a film adaptation of the graphic novel releasing April 12! FILMS: Anthony Hebert (and Corin) join us on a quest beyond the stars as we review The Last Starfighter, a sci-fi flick…

Every now and again, an episode so special, a move so mystifying, and change so dramatic happens, that you have to sit and breathe a moment. Events of such magnitude happen so rarely that fans, nay, humanity itself barely recovers. This episode is such an event. We have such BIG news, such EXCITING news, such LIFE-CHANGING news to tell you....but y…

Movies capture the human experience and whether J likes it or not, crying is a part of the human experience. Still on the hunt for their co-host Q, our teary travelers Mia and J hunt for the Top 5 Tearjerker Movies of All Time. It gets pretty sad, but we're pretty happy about it. Grab those tissues and come along. Hollywood seems determined to make…

Come fly with Mia, come and fly with J. On this very special episode, J and Mia are on a quest through the fantasy worlds of film and literature to find our missing Q. It’s a journey that requires friends and frenemies along the way, and not everyone may make it back!Whether we’re stepping through wardrobes, being thrown by tornados, on journeys wi…

When it comes to the echelon of movies adapted from video games, it's hard to pick a top 5. Mainly, because there aren't 5 really great video games movies! But building an episode around all the BAD video game movies...now there's an idea! And that's just what we did. J, Mia, and Q get together to wade through the movie mires and finally decide on …

We made it! 200 episodes and counting. Who would have guessed? We mean, The Simpsons didn’t even make it to 200 episodes (don’t look that up). We couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate 200 episodes than by joining in an apocalyptic group hug and ranking our Top 5 Movie Memories! This one gets emotional, Fivers. On this very special episode, fi…

Alan Tudyk. You know him and you love him, whether or not you know him and know you love him. Alan Tudyk is one of those character actors that is more than just the roles he plays. J, Mia, and Q have been collectively obsessed with Tudyk's tenacity for as long as we can remember, so on this episode, we're joining forces to Talk Tudyk and discover o…

We've all heard the phrase "It's so weird it had to be true" but few have gone as far as J and Mia did when they recorded an entire episode about movies based on true stories! While Q was off teaching sign language to Komodo dragons in Barcelona, Mia and J tell each other stories...true stories, as they count down the Top 5 Movies Based on True Sto…

Join the High Five crew for a blast from Academy Awards past as this week we revisit their classic episode all about the most outrageous Oscar snubs...now remember this list was only as of 2016 so there have been plenty of egregious snubs since then (Chadwick Boseman anyone?) so hop into your time machine and journey with us to the past as we try a…

Ala-Q-zam! Open saysa-MIa! Abraca-J-abra! Bring out your spell books and get ready to cast some laughs as the High Five gang gets their Hogwarts Letters and all fly off to conjure up the Top 5 Magic Movies of All Time list potion. Don't worry, we're talking real magic here, not a Jesse Eisenberg as far as the eye can see!Join Q on his first magical…

Sometimes it just feels good to be Bad, and no one likes being bad more than the High Five crew and dastardly dudes/dudettes from the 1980s! The 80s was a decade of decadence. A foray into flamboyance. An era of entertaining evildoers! Okay, you get the idea, we're talking about 80s movies with great bad guys and ranking the Top 5 80s Movie Villain…

We never thought we'd see the day where Zack Snyder's Justice League saw the light of day. No really, this type of thing has never happened before! High Five: The Podcast assembles the Mia, Q, and J League to find out if giving Zack Snyder $70 million and a lot of celebrities to play with was a good idea. Whether or not you loved or hated Zack Snyd…

Join Q, as he introduces you to one of the best new shows on the Project-Nerd podcast network. In this very special sneak peek episode things get unreal with a supercut of some of the weirdest "real, fake sponsors" of High Five episodes past. Remember to subscribe to Project Unreal wherever you listen to podcasts!…

It's been a pandemic of a year and if you're like most, you've spent a good portion of it indoors looking for something to stream online. We at High Five: The Podcast feel the same way and since we're your dedicated sherpas to the world of TV and film, we're dedicating TWO WHOLE EPISODES to the TV that is worth your time to binge. J, Mia, and Q are…

We're finally doing an episode about the films of Christopher Nolan. It's about time! And so are his movies! Zing! Do you know what it's also time for? It's about time that Q, J, and Mia invited their friend, comedian, and film lover, Cortney Warner to the show. Trust us, when Mia, J, Cortney, and Q get talking about Christopher Nolan, nothing can …

Behind every strong hero is an even stronger, usually adopted or unnaturally put in harm's way, sidekick! These pop culture protectors are always playing second fiddle to their more super heroes, so Q, J, and Mia decided it was time to give Sidekicks the spotlight for a bit and figure out the Top 5 Sidekicks in Pop Culture! Most of them become hero…

You know him. You love him. He's danced, sang, and clawed his way into our collective hearts, and on this episode, Mia, Q, and J want to do nothing but subsist on the movie candy that is Hugh Jackman! From his breakthrough performance as Wolverine to help establish superhero movies as a viable franchise type, to his live-action recording of Les Mis…

Get ready because J, Mia, and Q get together to talk about the Top 5 Government Overthrow Movies in honor of all the morons who tried that in early 2021. Do people not watch movies? Coups are hard to pull off, which is made evident by how many movies there are about failed ones!In this episode, the gang dives into the headlines, but only momentaril…

It's a debate as old as time, well, rather a debate as old as the early 90s when dueling video game systems competed in the market. Mia, our resident gamer, and her humble cohorts, J and Q, dive into a discussion that goes through every platform, every console, and damn near every SEGA iteration, to finally land our Top 5 Video Game Consoles of All…

Certain movies remind us what it's like to be a child. You have your Toy Stories and your American Tailses that always hold special places in our hearts, but then you have those other movies. The ones you only realize over time that, although you may have watched this as a child, it was only waiting like a sleeper cell for you to be an adult to rev…

No matter if you're starting a company with your college yuppie friends, or trying to stop mankind from slaughtering your people for their mutant powers, friendships are hard. In the happiest of movies, friendships endure, but some of the most compelling stories are actually about friendships falling apart. J, Mia, and Q climb aboard their friend-s…

Welcome to both the beginning of a new year and the end of our 2020 HighFiveMas Spectacular! We're ending with a bang and sparkle as we look into the future to dream about the movies we can't wait to see in the new year. From 2020 delays to Marvel mysteries, Mia, J, and Q travel from the times of Arthur to the streets of New Jersey, all the way to …

No new episode this week, instead you get warm seasons greetings from Q and a little preview of what to expect from next week's brand new episode! See you on January 1st, 2021!High Five: The Podcast által

Wait it's not the ghost of Christmas "presents"!? It's Christmas "present"? Ohhhhhhhhhh... Well, let's be honest, 2020 was a bit of a weird year. Okay, okay, it was crap! Everyone was fighting with each other, no one could leave the house, everyone felt sick, and all we wanted to do was take a 12-month nap. So, pretty much, 2020 was exactly like ou…

Ho, Ho, Ho! It's that time of year again, HighFiveMas, and that means the joy of holiday movies and awkward pop culture references! Our three Hos, J, Q, and Mia, are taking the hand of that creepy ghost kid and heading into the past to relive and rank our Top 5 Christmas Movies from Childhood!You don't want to miss which movies made the biggest imp…

December is upon us and the happiest time of the year has officially begun: The transition of Donald Trump out of the White House! But seriously, the Yule Time and holiday season has dropped in full force, so whether you're celebrating Christmas, Kwanzaa, Chaunauka, Festivus, or anything else Mia, J and Q want to join you in feeling good by listing…

As Thanksgiving comes to a close and we peacefully transition into the happiest time of the year, Q, Mia, and J thought it would be appropriate to talk about a movie studio that always makes us feel joyous: Pixar. This year, Pixar is giving us a Christmas present in the form of Soul on Dec. 25, so we thought, what better time to survey the CGI land…

From the web-slinging streets of Marvel New York City, through dimensional portals to the streets of DC's Gotham, Central City, and Metropolis, the gang is breaking bad and spending time with the worst of the DC rogues galleries. Once we're through, we'll know which Top 5 DC Villains Need Their Own Movie! Along the way, Mia will make some enemies, …